Why is Marigold?

<p><strong>Marigold was created for a reason she's just not sure what that reason is.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>An android Marigold was raised at the Evangeline School for Girls on the Gulf Coast. Now an adult she works on her creator's compound a desalination plant.</p><p><br></p><p>One day Tom-a wandering human searching for a way to exist in peace-arrives at the compound. Soon Tom is part of Marigold's family another reluctant adoptee of her creator. As Tom and Marigold bond he reveals that he remembers Marigold from somewhere in his murky past. But she doesn't remember him at all.</p><p><br></p><p>As they unwind a web of their past connections Marigold and Tom discover the reason for Marigold's creation... and the mysterious circumstances surrounding Tom's father's death.</p><p><br></p><p>Cover art by Rachel Evans</p>